Parma carved out four of them, and were unlucky when Brolin, serviced by Gianfranco Zola’s penetrative run and pass, shot firmly against the base of David Seaman’s right-hand post.Not that Arsenal were playing exclusively on the back foot Far from it. ‘The aim is to destroy the entire executive branch of government.’Across Russia, presidential power – and with it economic reform – is under attack. The economy is ruined, inflation is catastrophic, hunger and disease are spreading. The final hymn, united in radiant supplication, is a true apotheosis; if only the recording had given a bit of perspective SJEARLY music specialist at work. We had a little conversation and I wished him all the best.’ Dundas putted out on the second green and walked to the third tee, leaving Ballesteros in his wake. His father had wanted beech only, Mr Workman said; he himself, fearing that in the end a monoculture might lead to disease and impoverish the soil, has encouraged ash as well, and oak wherever there is clay.Some of the beeches were 200 years old and well past the stage at which they should have been harvested but, as our host remarked, they were so beautiful that he could not bear to see them cut down. Rainer (his surname, Ptacek, has gone the way of the unpronounceable) conjures an extraordinary repertoire of noises from his National Steel guitar; a clatter, then a wheeze, then a whoop.His formative experience of migration to Chicago mirrors that of many of his blues heroes, but this man is an original talent.

He played the title-role in a BBC radio production of Othello and television appearances included Volpone and The Yeoman of the Guard. COMPULSORY competitive tendering (CCT) has swept across the manual work functions of local authorities, reducing costs through efficiency savings, defining minimum service levels and cutting wages and jobs. ‘There is a mistaken idea that uniformity is the equivalent of control,’ says Janet Wallace, the headteacher. And his progress was becoming a tale that could have been appropriated by Frank Capra, a journey that would ultimately sound the distinctly American theme of reinvention, which has attracted dreamers to Hollywood movies since celluloid was created.
Now, 56 years into a life that seems to him to be charmed, he believes in the power of believing, is convinced that you can want something so much that the wanting brings it into being Yet he can’t help wondering whether fate will intervene. Educated in Law at Athens and Leipzig, he was fluent in German and defended more than 2,000 patriots brought before German courts martial in occupied Greece.

A spokesman for HVL said: ‘There is a greater, more favourable, differential in terms of diesel in other EC countries which means that the UK is still out of line.’The Freight Transport Association said that Mr Clarke had delivered a damaging blow to industry, adding that the measures will raise transport costs by pounds 300m a year. Seven hours of talks between government and unions ended with government officials offering to roll back some pay cuts but refusing to scrap a restructuring plan Flights other than those of Air France were not affected AP. This is all very well when the non-executives are truly independent – witness the departure of Robert Horton from BP when the non-executives objected to his management style – but it is not so easy if the boss is a Robert Maxwell. The Sun, for example, thundered: ‘How much longer are we going to allow mindless morons to drag our name through the gutters of Europe?’

Yet contrary to the preconceptions of many Britons – in Westminster as well as Wapping – Her Majesty’s subjects are not an object of general admiration on the Continent. This early business link by marriage symbolises perfectly the development of Barclays by merger and family solidarity over the next 2 1/2 centuries.Two more Barclays relatives joined the Black Spread Eagle, Silvanus Bevan in 1767 and John Henton Tritton in 1782. But we, with our allies and partners, do have to consider very carefully how it is to be enforced and what the effect of that enforcement would be, both on the humanitarian effort, none of us wish to see that end either this side of Christmas or long after, and on the safety of our troops.’He then told the Commons of ‘other measures’ being considered; a reference to the proposed ’stranglehold’ on Belgrade.Public pressure was also cited as a reason for action by Tom King, a former Conservative Secretary of State for Defence – in defiance of ‘every military rule of what is sensible or possible’.Paddy Ashdown maintained the heat on the Government, broadcasting attacks on the Serbs from Sarajevo, saying: ‘They sit with impunity on the hillsides knocking down a city for their sport.’The Liberal Democrat leader added: ‘The international community ought to say, ‘Sarajevo and the other besieged cities are under (UN) mandate, and after a given time, say midday in 48 hours, all the heavy weapons will be withdrawn, and those that aren’t will be subject to attack from the air’.'For the moment, Mr Major is keen to pursue a cautious, step- by-step approach – going along with US and French demands for firmer action, but with back-up protection for troops on the ground.One Whitehall source said last night that contingency plans had to be drawn up for the possibility of Serbian retaliation.Although it was accepted the Serbs were not as strong as portrayed, they could inflict a lot of damage in a short time. Again, the Government achieved the worst of all worlds.The markets will give their snap verdict on this concoction this morning.

.16THERE is an unlikely new look at Pontypool this season – though John Perkins does look the part as chairman. But most Afrikaners would be ‘absolutely horrified’, he said.Speaking at his final election rally in Durban – campaigning is banned today – the ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, pleaded with supporters to avoid being dragged into a backlash. To use the argot of recession economics, the unions are probably bumping along the bottom.Legislation introduced last August could have delivered the coup de grace to the movement. ‘I have Christmas cards from them.’A solitary bell called the faithful to prayer last Sunday.